BORE Mamadou Ibrahim

Manage and provide technical oversight of the development and implementation of the Country Program (CP) emergency and resilience programming, particularly the multi-year German-Government funded, KFW-managed 'Stabilization and Reconciliation in the Lake Chad Region (STaR) Project' that support high-quality programming to advance Catholic Relief Services' (CRS) work in serving the poor and vulnerable.

Roles and Key Responsibilities:

• Provide management, guidance, and technical oversight of the STaR project's resilience and recovery activities with interventions in community infrastructure; agriculture & rural livelihoods, social cohesion and local governance that are intended to contribute to stabilization and reconciliation in the most affected regions of the Lake Chad Basin.
• Throughout the project cycle, ensure project design, start-up, implementation and close-out are in line with CRS quality principles and standards, donor guidelines, and industry best practices.
• Effectively manage talent for the STaR project and supervise. Manage team dynamics and staff well-being. Provide coaching, strategically tailor individual development plans, and complete performance management for direct reports.
• Lead the development of program learning - identify opportunities for learning, research and publications in the area of recovery and resilience programming. Facilitate the dissemination of promising practices and lessons learned to contribute to the agency knowledge management agenda. Ensure integration of innovations and best practices.
• Contribute to the proactive pursuit of opportunities for new funding to ensure growth of the CP emergency sector portfolio in line with agency, regional, and CP strategic priorities. Serve as the technical lead and technical writer to ensure quality proposals.
• Oversee technical assistance and capacity strengthening activities in emergency, recovery and resilience programming for staff and partner organizations to enhance program quality and impact.
• Oversee the identification, assessment and strengthening of partnerships relevant to emergency, recovery and resilience and the appropriate application of partnership concepts, tools and approaches.
• Ensure timely and appropriate project expenditures in line with financial plans and efficient use and stewardship of project material sources.
• Monitor staff adherence to security protocols including ensuring that Project staff are aware of, and comply with, CRS personnel safety and security policies and procedures and the dissemination of safety and security SoPs/plans.
• Attend security related meetings with partners and other actors on behalf of CRS and ensure the that the CoP, CR and CM are informed of developments and recommended outcomes from these meetings.

• Communicated with lucid patients to gather incident and medical history information.
• Maintained levelheadedness and efficiency in high-pressure situations, effectively prioritizing tasks to save lives and provide medical care.
• Triaged patients in emergency situations based on life-threatening needs and delegated tasks to better provide treatment to maximum patients at once.
• Recorded situational triages, medication administration and patient statuses using [Software] to collect data on EMT effectiveness and emergency preparedness.

Overall Coordination/Technical leadership

· Responsible for managing emergency response programming activities in the Far North, East and Northwest in Cameroon (Unconditional & Conditional (restricted and unrestricted) cash & vouchers distributions, food security and livelihoods, and other potential activities such WASH as and NFI distributions;

· Provide technical and management support to the program team and partners, in addition to ad-hoc technical consultants. Strengthening the technical and management capacity of emergency program staff and partner organizations.

· Help to ensure consistency, quality, efficiency, and accountability of emergency activities implemented;

· Ensure strong coordination with other actors and CRS’ active participation in multiple coordination forums and working groups;

· Help grow our emergency portfolio, and work in collaboration with colleagues to identify opportunities

· Coordinate activities in Maroua and Kousseri, Bertoua, Gaoua Boulai, BatouriGaroua and Bamenda Sub offices.

Security Management

• Monitor staff adherence to security protocols including ensuring that Bamenda staff are aware of, and comply with, CRS personnel safety and security policies and procedures and the dissemination of safety and security SoPs/plans.
• Ensure effective application of security measures and tools (control systems, activity logs at the office and CRS residence)
• Attend all security related meetings with partners and other actors on behalf of CRS in Bamenda, and ensure the CR and CP Security Officer are informed of developments and recommended outcomes from these meetings.

· Ensure regular communication with the Security unit of the UN i.e UNDSS in Bamenda, local administrative authorities, Church Partners and other INGOs to gather and verify security information, and make security recommendations

· Systematically provide security and safety briefing to new staff and visitors to the CRS Bamenda Office upon their arrival and ensure their effective documentation (debriefing of visitors and staff)..

Partnership Management

• Serve as primary contact person with implementing partners to identify major areas for capacity strengthening and compliance with CRS and donor requirements.

Documentation

• Ensure the identification, documentation, sharing and adoption of best practices and lessons learned.
• Provide inputs to a written case study, specifically about market support activities, by the end of the program.

Beneficiary accountability

• Ensure active participation of beneficiaries and other stakeholders in program activities.
• Ensure transparent and effective targeting of project participants based on clear criteria and participatory methods.
• Manage an effective mechanism for collecting and responding to feedback from the communities and project participants.

Mentoring and Supervision

• Ensure quality supervision and training of staff who are engaged to support activities.

Increasing the ability of local NGOs, including Réso Climat members, to implement activities mitigating climate change impacts.

• Works with Réso Climat and Groupe Thématique and Adaptation au Changement Climatique to strengthen climate change adaptation capacity;

• Developed a ten years’ business plan for the The National Meteorological Agency

· Coordinated and managed activities and budget for the Building Resilience adaption to Climate Extremes Disasters (DRACED/SUR 1 M) project

· Reinforced the partner Secours Caritas Mopti in Gao ‘s capacity to implement high quality and sustainable programming, while increasing staff capacities

· Ensured CRS representation and coordination with government deconcentrated Services, and others stakeholders

· Ensured activities and other resilience-building activities achieves targeted objectives, maintain compliance with CRS and donor requirements,

· Served as BRACED Focal Point for CRS/Mali

· Coordinated and managed three program components: Livelihoods resilience, Governance and Disasters Risk Reduction (DRR), and women's and others vulnerable group’ participation in decision-making and assume role as change agents

· Provided performance-based grants to communes to strengthen their institutional capacity and promote gender-responsive Climate Change Adaptation and Disasters Risk Reduction (DRR) in Communes Development Plans (CDPs).

· Trained civil society organization (CSOs) in advocacy and intermediation, citizens participation in local governance

· Monitored local council, CDP progress, small grants management and the training of local council to mobilize and access local and external resources.

· Organized and implement of land tenure acquisition BCC messaging/radio listening sessions

· Monitored community dialogue on land tenure processes

· Coordinated and managed activities for the Emergency and Recovery Food Security Program (ERFSP) project

· Worked in collaboration with implementing partner Secours Catholique et Development (SECADEV) to implement high quality and sustainable programming, while increasing staff capacities

· Ensured that food voucher and other resilience-building activities achieve targeted objectives, maintain compliance with CRS and donor requirements,

· Served as the Emergency Response Focal Point for CRS/Chad

· Coordinated all project activities including programming, implementation, monitoring and evaluation using a Detailed Implementation Plan

· Managed CRS and partner staff to achieve project objectives

· Prepared plans, budgets, strategies and progress reports

· Worked closely with various project stakeholders including local and international NGOs, government officials, and implementation partners to ensure quality programming

· Organized and monitored the implementation of project activities

· Managed partnership relationships with local implementing partner, World Food Program and the USDA

· supervised the activities of the implementing partners and their project staff, while strengthening staff capacities

· Enhanced the sustainability of school feeding

Project: Education/Local & Regional Purchase (LRP funded CRS, WFP, USDA

· Provide technical assistance in institutional partner strengthening

· Manage coordination of partners training

· Conduct participatory analysis with partners in the planning and implementation of activities

· Support partners in creating strategic activity plans, budget, data collection and reporting

• Ensured the mobilization of beneficiary communities in the implementation of project activities

• Ensured the development and capacity building of project beneficiaries

• Supported the implementation of the monitoring and evaluation of the project

Project: Education (funded by UNICEF)

· Facilitator / Trainer AMPRODE - Sahel - Koro (Education for Life) UNICEF

· Ensured the mobilization of beneficiary communities in the implementation of project activities

· Ensured the development and capacity building of project beneficiaries

· Supported the implementation of the monitoring and evaluation of the project

Project: Education for Life project (Funded by UNICEF)

· Consultant as part of the implementation of the Community framework for early childhood structures. "Education for Life Project"

Project: Promotion of basic education (funded by GTZ/AFD KFW)

· Moderator trainer CAP Youvarou Promotion Project Basic Education (PPEB / GTZ / KfW AFD) in Mopti Region

· Ensured the mobilization of beneficiary communities in the implementation of project activities

· Ensured the development and capacity building of project beneficiaries

· Supported the implementation of the monitoring and evaluation of the project

Fight Against Poverty and Hunger (funded by World Bank)

· Ensured the mobilization of beneficiary communities in the implementation of project activities

· Ensured the development and capacity building of project beneficiaries

· Supported the implementation of the monitoring and evaluation of the project.

Program to enhance the school enrollment rate in Mali funded by USAID

· Provide technical assistance to municipalities enabling them to play their rules in education development (infrastructures, manuals, school management etc…..)